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John James Audubon

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The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.


— John James Audubon


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To be a good draftsman was to me a blessing.


— John James Audubon


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To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art.


— John James Audubon


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Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive hope, how much further wilt thou lead me?


— John James Audubon


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I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could.


— John James Audubon


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Morris) (Harvard University Press and Houghton Library 2008) ISBN 978-0-674-03102-9
John James Audubon Audubon And His Journals (The European Journals 1826-1829 the Labrador Journal 1833 the Missouri River Journals 1843) edited by Maria Audubon volumes 1 and 2 originally publiJohn James Audubond by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1897. In 1905 the National Audubon Society was incorporated and named in his honor. Though their finances were tenuous the Audubons started a family.

His major work a color-plate book entitled The Birds of America (1827–1839) is considered one of the finest ornithological works ever completed. Audubon identified 25 new species.

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